Philippines logs over 4k new Covid-19 cases amid NCR surge

The Philippines logged 4,084 new cases of Covid-19 on January 3, 2022, bringing the total confirmed infections to 2,855,819.

A total of 497 new recoveries were added, pushing the overall recovery count to 2,779,241, which is 97.3 percent of all infections.

Active cases increased to 24,992, with the majority being mild and moderate.

The National Capital Region (NCR) reported the highest number of new cases in the past two weeks with 2,831 cases, followed by Calabarzon and Central Luzon.

The country's Covid-19 death toll reached 51,586 with the addition of 16 new fatalities, some of which were due to late encoding of information.

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